Slow Dance
~ Written by a young girl who is dying if cancer and had only six months to live.
Have you ever watched kids on a merry-ground?
Or listened to the rain slapping the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flights?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading nights?
You better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
Do you run through each day on the fly?
When you ask ‘How are you’ do hear the reply?
When the day is done do you lie in your bed with the next 100 chores
Running through your head?
Ever told your child we’ll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste, not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch, let a good friendship die
Cause you never had the time to call and say “Hi?”
You better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
it is like an unopened gift…thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower and hear the music
Before the song is over.
